Every day, cybersecurity events are dealt with on a relatively small scale and responses become routine. Much like dealing with vehicle repairs, it is second nature to bring your car in for an oil change and tire rotation but what do you do when the engine completely fails? How do you respond to this seemingly tragic event?

The food processing industry is the largest industry in the world. As the food supply chain grows in complexity along with consumer and retailer demands, processors are under more pressure than ever to stay competitive and remain profitable.

No matter how loyal online shoppers may be to certain retailers, holiday shopping will test even the most dedicated of brand ambassadors. Those warm and fuzzy feelings shoppers have for favorite stores or designers often evaporate when the dire need for lowest price, fastest shipping, and special sizes outweigh the emotional bond a shopper may have with a particular company.

Let’s face it, customer loyalty is always fleeting. But during peak season it can be doubly easy to lose and much harder to gain.

It’s been seven years since American Express introduced Small Business Saturday – a day to eschew Black Friday doorbuster deals and online discounts in favor of doing holiday shopping in-person at local businesses.

Consumers have responded positively to the shop local notion, with 112 million folks spending more than $15 billion during last year’s Small Business Saturday, according to American Express.

Santa’s nice list must be awfully long this year because U.S. holiday shopping projections have reached an all-time high of $1.04 trillion, with as much as 21 percent of that expected to come through e-commerce orders, according to Deloitte.

But the guy in the red suit can’t deliver all those gifts on his own, which is why retailers and delivery services alike are ramping up holiday hiring earlier than ever before.

For those of us online shoppers who aren’t über tidy and don’t rush off to the recycling bin as frequently as we should, our homes are filling up with teetering towers of corrugated boxes. We want all the stuff but not all the boxes in which the stuff arrives. It’s causing a lot of stressful post-merchandise mayhem.

Over the next 20 years, the demographic of people 65 and older is projected to grow more than 4.5 times faster than the non-senior population. This expanding demographic of “silver” consumers, that includes the mature/silent generation and increasingly the baby boomer generation, is the fastest-growing age group on the planet and has tremendous impact on the latest food packaging innovations.

As anyone with any kind of social media account can tell you, unboxing experiences are not created equal. Photos and videos of the good, the bad, and the ugly are posted for the entire world to see. Yet these images represent just a fraction of the folks who are interacting with brands across the globe every day via boxes and other kinds of shipping cartons.